Sample Chapter From Our O'Reilly Book Now Available
We're pleased to announce that O'Reilly's first Drupal book, Using Drupal, is now finished. It's being sent to the printer and should be available at your favorite book stores soon. In fact, you can pre-order from Amazon.com right now.
But you want a sample chapter, you say? Well you've come to the right place! The sample chapter is entitled "Event Mangement" and covers some of the most sticky aspects of handling time-based information in Drupal. The chapter talks about how to use the Date, Calendar, CCK, Views, and Flag modules to create a simple events site in which users can sign up to attend an event. The download includes the table of contents for the entire book, so you can see what you'll get when the entire book is ready.
About the Book
[From O'Reilly] If you want to build a blog or community website, this essential hands-on guide provides recipes to help you do it with Drupal—the popular open source web framework and content management system—via the vast collection of community-contributed modules that make this framework unique. Using Drupal shows how to combinine existing modules in interesting ways (with a minimum of code-wrangling) to develop projects such as a wiki, publishing workflow site, photo gallery, product review site, online store, user group site, and more.
About Do It With Drupal
Using Drupal's authors are Angela Byron, Addison Berry, Nathan Haug, Jeff Eaton, James Walker, and Jeff Robbins. All are members of the Lullabot team and will be leading sessions at next month's Do It With Drupal Seminar, December 10-12 in New Orleans. Also speaking will be the authors of many of the Drupal modules covered in this book will be speaking. Speakers include, Karen Stevenson, author of Date and Calendar and co-maintainer of CCK; Earl Miles, author of Views and Panels; Moshe Weitzman, author of Organic Groups, Diff, and Devel; and Ryan Szrama, author of Übercart. These are just a few of the long list of speakers appearing at the event. Check out the speakers page and the schedule for more information.
O'Reilly is a sponsor of Do It With Drupal and will be providing discount codes and a stack of giveaway books to attendees of the event.
For more information about Do It With Drupal, visit http://www.doitwithdrupal.com
For more information about Using Drupal, visit http://www.usingdrupal.com
Or you can use the signup module... ;)
Sadly, the D6 port of the Signup module wasn't ready as the Lullabots were writing this book. Had I known they were doing a whole chapter on event management and needed a D6 release, I might have been able to reprioritize and get something out sooner. Oh well, such is life in the fast-paced world of Drupal.
That said, I'm happy to announce that if you're building a site with Drupal 6 and need to manage event attendance, you should seriously consider using the signup module -- it provides a lot of great event management functionality out of the box, works with both event.module and CCK date fields, has lots of groovy Views2 integration, and more. The 6.x-1.0-rc1 release candidate is now out, and 6.x-1.0 will follow shortly.
Happy event managing!
-Derek (dww)
will it work with Date and Calendar
Does signup work with Karen's very cool Date and Calendar modules in place of Event?
never mind, sorry
I misunderstood your post, sorry for the lame comment.
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